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ISQED
2011
IEEE
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Switching constraint-driven thermal and reliability analysis of Nanometer designs
As process technology continues to shrink, interconnect current densities continue to increase, making it ever more difficult to meet chip reliability targets. For microprocessors...
Srini Krishnamoorthy, Vishak Venkatraman, Yuri Apa...
ISQED
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Constraint generation for software-based post-silicon bug masking with scalable resynthesis technique for constraint optimizatio
Due to the dramatic increase in design complexity, verifying the functional correctness of a circuit is becoming more difficult. Therefore, bugs may escape all verification effo...
Chia-Wei Chang, Hong-Zu Chou, Kai-Hui Chang, Jie-H...
ISQED
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
New category of ultra-thin notchless 6T SRAM cell layout topologies for sub-22nm
The extent to which the 6T SRAM bit cell can be perpetuated through continued scaling is of enormous technological and economic importance. Understanding the growing limitations i...
Randy W. Mann, Benton H. Calhoun
ISQED
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Modeling and analyzing NBTI in the presence of Process Variation
With continuous scaling of transistors in each technology generation, NBTI and Process Variation (PV) have become very important silicon reliability problems for the microprocesso...
Taniya Siddiqua, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. St...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
A high linear low flicker noise 25% duty cycle LO I/Q mixer for a FM radio receiver
Jae-Seung Lee, Chang-Jin Jeong, Yeong-Shin Jang, I...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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Optimization of area in digit-serial Multiple Constant Multiplications at gate-level
— The last two decades have seen many efficient algorithms and architectures for the design of low-complexity bit-parallel Multiple Constant Multiplications (MCM) operation, tha...
Levent Aksoy, Cristiano Lazzari, Eduardo Costa, Pa...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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A programmable axonal propagation delay circuit for time-delay spiking neural networks
— we present an implementation of a programmable axonal propagation delay circuit which uses one first-order logdomain low-pass filter. Delays may be programmed in the 550ms rang...
Runchun Wang, Craig T. Jin, Alistair McEwan, Andr&...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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A 6.25 MHz BW 8-OSR fifth-order single-stage sigma-delta ADC
— A switched-capacitor single-stage sigma-delta ADC with a fifth-order modulator is proposed. The proposed sigmadelta ADC employs feed-forward architecture with oversampling rati...
Chang-Seob Shin, Min-Ho Yoon, Kang-Il Cho, Young-J...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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A new Temporal-Constraint-Based algorithm by handling temporal qualities for video enhancement
—Video enhancement has played very important roles in many applications. However, most existing enhancement methods only focus on the spatial quality within a frame while the tem...
Jun Xie, Weiyao Lin, Hongxiang Li, Ning Xu, Hongyu...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Synchronizing coupled oscillators in polygonal networks with frustration
— In this study, synchronization phenomena observed in coupled polygonal oscillatory networks with frustration is investigated. We focus on the power consumption of coupling resi...
Yoko Uwate, Yoshifumi Nishio